“The job board will have useful information about San Diego, such as cost of living and housing, cultural opportunities such as the Old Globe, the La Jolla Playhouse and the San Diego Opera,” said Slapin.

But the real bottom line is that the American education system does not really promote and celebrate math and science at an early age. The story of “jobs” is not that there aren’t any. It is that there are a lot of them in certain fields. The unemployment rate in San Diego may be 10.5 percent across the board, but there are numerous unfilled openings for skilled software engineers. Call it the revenge of the nerds.